Nashville Fun

This past weekend we attended one of 5th groups marriage retreats. I highly reccommend anyone going if you get the chance. It's a lot of fun, great info, can recconect with your spouse, and not to mention its a free weekend in Nashville and you stay at a beautiful hotel. Friday night after we got out of the classes we headed to downtown Nashville. We went to The Big Bang. My absolute favorite place in Nashville. It's a dueling piano bar. Basically you have cards at your table that you can request songs that you want the piano guys to play and place some money on top of your request. They of course always play great music so its always a fun time...and not to mention its smoke free which is a huge plus!

On Saturday we got done with classes right after lunch so we had the whole day to do whatever we wanted. James and I went shopping at Opry Mills and had dinner. Then that night we met up with some friends and went to Zanies (a comedy club). It was a great show and we plan on going back really soon!

The group of us at The Big Bang...taking a break from singing and dancing.

Jillian and I after the show with one of the

performers of the night.

And another one.....

Yes we are having another baby! We're very excited and can't wait for our new little one. We've been discussing another one for a while now and tried for a few months before James deployed in January with no success. Which now looking back it would have been hard being pregnant with him being gone. I've been extremely sick this pregnancy, which is the complete opposite from my other two pregnancies. So its been a little hard. We have a due date of April 26th, but I go in a few weeks for my first appointment and ultrasound. I'll keep you up to date on the new little one!

Where Dreams Really Do Come True

After our trip to the beach we headed to Disney World. I was overly excited because I've always wanted to go there and I was a little jealous that James has been there. Madison couldn't wait to see Princesses and the castle....thats all she cared about. We stayed at The Animal Kingdom Lodge, which was beautiful. Our room had an awesome view with all kinds of animals grazing around. I was nervous to let the kids out on the balcony because I was afraid of them throwing stuff down there....which did happen....Logan took off his socks and fed them to the giraffes.

We rode over on these buses to the park instead of driving which was nice. We did the Dumbo ride, It's A Small World ( and yes that ride is annoying!) saw characters, took pictures in front of the castle, and the kids got Mickey Mouse shirts. It was a lot of fun and we are already planning our next trip back when the kids are a little older and can do more rides!

Madison's favorite part of the whole vacation was when she got to meet Ariel....it was cute she told Ariel her name, how old she was and that she liked swimming!!

Beach trip

We finally got to do our very first family vacation. We spent a few days at Cocoa Beach which was amazing. I was glad when we got there to see it was a very small area and not overly crowded. We had a long 12 hour drive though, so we left at 10:30 and Logan decided to stay up till 5 something in the morning till he passed out. Once we arrived and checking into our hotel we headed to see the beach. Logan said "wow big pond" lol...Madison was all about the waves and ocean and Logan just wanted to dig and play in the sand so it worked out pretty well. James took Madison out in the water and Logan just played in the sand while I layed out. While we were there we had to enjoy some sea food. We went to a place called Fish Lips. They had a live band playing and Madison did some dancing which I think entertained everyone around us. Logan loved the fake alligator ourside. It was a great trip and now we know how much the kids love the beach we know to make it a much longer trip next time we go